How Dasuki Betrayed Jonathan And Got His Comeuppance From Buhari

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Shortly after the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki’s houses at Abuja and Sokoto was searched by the Department of State Services (DSS) for which the service accused Dasuki of treasonable felony, the embattled Dasuki allegedly lamented that he was being persecuted despite helping the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari to power.

Just a small shaking he started singing like a cannery. The singing bird has released another hit song, where he revealed that he never wanted Jonathan to emerge president in 2011.

 It is therefore now obvious why President Goodluck Jonathan’s government ended the way it did. The government was betrayed from within and without. How Jonathan did not see it coming still beats my imagination. Heading the treacherous lot was none other than his National Security Adviser (NSA) Col Sambo Dasuki, who apparently was working from within to undermine the government he detested its head, President Jonathan.

In today’s LEADERSHIP (Thursday, 23 July 2015), Sambo Dasuki admitted through his media consultant while he was NSA, Mr Yushau Shuaib, that he worked for President Muhammadu Buhari to emerge as the presidential candidate of the alliance between the ACN and CPC at the run-up to the 2011 general election. He even claimed that he knelt down before Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the presence of Chief Bisi Akande begging them to accept Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of ACN-CPC alliance.

It would be recalled that the alliance collapsed shortly after Pastor Tunde Bakari failed to sign the dotted lines that he would resign as vice president once the elections were over. The ACN eventually fielded former EFCC chairman Malam Nuhu Ribadu as its presidential candidate while Buhari emerged as the candidate of the CPC.

For those who don’t  know, Dasuki’s media consultant, Yashua Shuaib,   was an information officer at the Federal Ministry of Information seconded to National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) where he was heading the public relations unit, and was responsible for issuing press statement on behalf of the Director General of NEMA. Shuaib unmindful of the fact that a civil servant must only be seen not heard, he was constantly writing opinion articles in the media, claiming that he love to express himself. In one of his articles he criticised the policy of government, for which he was punished and was relieved of his appointment by the former minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. I remember him writing severally on the injustice he claimed meted to him. The same man that was axed for attacking the government he works for as a civil servant, was immediately employed by the NSA Dasuki as his media consultant, a position that would eventually make the guy get more money than he would ever have done as civil servant.

 Being a blogger Shuaib, was always attacking Jonathan’s government and got paid his consultancy fees from the same Jonathan through the NSA. What a tragedy! What a nest of treachery!!

While I blame Jonathan for not doing background check on Dasuki before making him NSA, I think it was just part of nest of those whose alliance are elsewhere while they worked against Jonathan and Nigeria.

There are however, several questions begging for answer. What type of advice was Dasuki giving to the commander in chief in the fight against insurgency and terrorism? Did he deliberately mislead the president, so that the president would not be re-elected? If he mislead the president should he not be held responsible for the 15,000 lives lost since this terrorism and insurgency started? Can he be blameless from the metamorphosis of Boko Haram and the near total destruction of the North East economy, that the country just got Work Bank loan to rebuild?

 There are also allegations that Dasuki starved the service chiefs of funds and failed to buy equipment or weapons for the war against insurgency in the North East, which made our army so weak, while Boko Haram continued to grow in strength. We will learn more when Dasuki will have his day in court.